Dhaka, March 11 -- Anisuzzaman Chowdhury, special assistant to the Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on the finance ministry, has said the country's economy is "very fragile" and getting out of this phase will be the priority of his work.

While speaking to journalists at the Secretariat on Tuesday for the first time after taking charge as a special assistant in the rank of a state minister, the professor of Macroeconomic Policy & Development Division at Australia's Western Sydney University, said: "The state of the economy is very fragile. There's no opportunity to say much more.

"The chief advisor compared the economy with Gaza City yesterday. The hint is enough to understand the circumstances."

Highlighting that everything in the economy,...